How to Use sawyer in a Sentence

sawyer

noun
  • The friendships West formed with his sawyer partners were thrillingly close.
    The New Yorker, 2021-11-08
  • Specialists called sawyers, who chop down trees, wore more, hauling Kevlar chaps and chain saws.
    Tim Arango, New York Times, 2019-10-28
  • The cotton-elastane blend stretched well enough for one sawyer to use proper form and wear chainsaw chaps while bucking wood.
    Charlie Ebbers, Outside Online, 2022-10-18
  • For those not in the know, a hazel hoe is used to trench and clear the area, while a sawyer is a person trained to down limbs and trees during wildfires.
    Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 2020-09-16
  • The place was extraordinarily fit for building a community for sawyers, not farmers.
    Paul Dorpat, The Seattle Times, 2017-05-24
  • So Ole, who is handy the way many farmers are, built a small cabin using 6-by-8-inch timbers hewed by Amish sawyers who live and work near Ontario.
    Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2018-02-23
  • ArchitectureWorks worked with the homeowners and a local sawyer to repurpose felled trees from a nearby country club and turn them into full-round posts.
    al, 2020-04-14
  • Interfor, one of the pandemic's hottest stocks, is the latest sawyer to announce cutbacks, citing declining wood demand in its decision to reduce fourth-quarter lumber output by 17%.
    Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 2022-10-21

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